Deb Nagan: Sustainable Landscape Design and Environmental Art

Deb Nagan is a prominent London-based landscape architect, designer, and artist with a career spanning over three decades. As the lead of Deb Nagan Studio and a Fellow of the RSA, she integrates professional landscape architecture with land art traditions to create sustainable and ecologically significant environments. Her work ranges from large-scale urban masterplans, such as the Stirling Prize-nominated Warwick University Faculty of Arts, to conceptual garden installations in international locations like Quebec, Amiens, and Saudi Arabia. Deb Nagan’s artistic practice also includes water-based mixed media paintings and studio collections that document geography, river life, and the impacts of climate change, often informed by her travels to remote regions like Greenland and Iceland. She holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Greenwich and serves as a Mayor's Design Advisor for London. Her design philosophy emphasizes biodiversity replenishment, soil connectivity, and the deep history of place, extracting geological and societal meaning to create site-specific interventions in both public and private realms.